Anton Chekhov Quotes, Past Quotes, Events Quotes

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Events Quotes , Results Quotes

The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Events Quotes

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Strong Quotes , Events Quotes

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Spring Quotes , Events Quotes

Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

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Tags : A.S.A. Harrison Quotes , Events Quotes , Details Quotes

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Mean Quotes , Events Quotes